Maria Dahvana Headley, whose new translation of “Beowulf” came out last year, wanted to build onto the thousand-year-old poem’s long history. Part of its staying power, Headly said, is how ...

Why is the legendary saga of Beowulf still so influential more than 1,000 years after it was composed? ... We always come back to the same themes: monsters, heroes - and Beowulf has those." ...

Angelina Jolie identified with her character's maternal feelings in "Beowulf." Nov. 5, 2007 — -- The oldest known story in the English language comes to the silver screen this month as the ...

Don’t Know Much About BEOWULF? Nobody Does! Season 2 Episode 22 | 12m 56s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Today we’re going to take a look at one particular Epic Poem and follow its long ...

If you're tired of yet another Carmina Burana or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, this week promises quite a variety of programming — including performances by two groups new to the scene. Although ...

This review contains spoilers. In its final episode, Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands finally starts to deliver on the promise of its concept. This isn’t a perfect episode, but it’s far more ...

Computer-based analysis of the Old English poem Beowulf indicates it’s the work of single author. ... Tolkien, as it happens, relied on the poem’s content and themes for his argument, ...

So when ITV’s new adaptation of Beowulf reached living rooms on Sunday, its familiar style and grand themes quickly saw it branded a “blatant rip-off” of the hugely popular HBO drama.

The tale of Beowulf is thought to have been written sometime between 700 and 1000 a.d. (Image credit: ... His reasoning was that the theme of Christianity is uniformly woven throughout.

We always come back to the same themes: monsters, heroes - and Beowulf has those." Image source, DC Entertainment Beowulf tells the story of how the monster Grendel terrorises a Danish stronghold ...